Yomo Kimyata

Thanks for this; I would have found this arc eventually but this got me here more quickly. It's very entertaining!

Wow, great job!

War mace/battle axe (they are essentially the same power sets, except one is smashing damage and the other is lethal).

Every building is a Chase bank, a Verizon Wireless store, or is empty.

Yeah, I made an error. I thought Energy Aura was the one with -endurance resistance. Elec Armor it is!

I recently made 50 on mine and it's great at 50. I'm running around without an alpha doing content like Malta and Carnival at +3/+4 and having a grand old time! Not fully IOed out yet (no purples, ATOs or winter os) but relatively nicely put together. Soft capped at melee and ranged defense, close at AoE. Resistance for s/l mid 60s, low 20s in just about everything else. I even added Aid Self for a heal, which kind of felt necessary. My only issue is that lethal damage really feels inferior to smashing, so I feel like a war mace would be outperforming. Running Malta content, for example, on a WM/WP brute or a WM/DA scrapper feels a lot faster.

For Carnival of Shadows, I'll go with WA/Energy Aura brute.

I was just thinking about this very thing this morning. For Malta I'm going to say WM/WP brute.

I was initially leaning towards the two damage procs, and then the accuracy/slow from Impeded Swiftness and the accuracy/to hit debuff from Cloud Senses. I'm running at +4 and maybe one of the reasons I'm not seeing the procs is because I'm missing a lot. Again, I'll need to check the logs. Also, there is a smidgen of resist damage for the set bonuses. I like the idea of stacking -recharge, but I imagine that any fight that would take long enough for that to come into play, i.e., AV or GM, would also involve massive reduce recharge resistance?

It can take Slow sets in game. I’ve only been running with it for and evening, but I haven’t noticed it proccing; when I get a chance I’ll check the logs.

I recently respecced one of my brutes to add Aid Self, and I’m looking at Injection instead of Aid Other as a prerequisite. I rarely/ever see this in posted builds. It looks like it could be useful for procs, Cloud Senses, the Slow smashing damage, maybe some other to hit debuffs. Does anyone use this power on enemies and if so how would you slot it? Assume up to 6 slots.

In practical terms, it makes selling harder. There is a penalty if you post too high and feel like you need to repost. BUYING IS EASY; SELLING IS HARD. Now why is the fee split up into two components? Because when you post an offer, you have almost no idea where it’s going to sell. It could be at your posting price. It could be 2bn. Having two fees asks for an initial deposit and makes it so it sums up to 10% of the sale. Why is it 10%? Influence sink. I wholeheartedly support this.

No. I will not support yet another initiative to make everything yet easier, even though that has been the clear trend through Live and Homecoming. Gaining inf is trivially easy. Buy your purple. If you can't get a purple recipe that is exactly the one you want to drop, along with the salvage and the 600,000 crafting fee, then press your I win button and have it automatically slotted, I'm sorry. I am all for making this a low-entry game that is extremely easy to excel at. We all want to feel validated. But you don't need purples to succeed so asking for the rate drop to be increased is ridiculous.

What distinguishes one from another? What tools do you need to defeat a GM solo that are over those needed to defeat an AV?

I ought to have sought him on Hot or Not in the year of two aught aught aught. I thought he was in a fraught squat, eating a kumquat. Sometimes I can be a real tw jerk.

I tend to use Nemesis as a benchmark.

My experience has been that if you want a mission team, you have to build it yourself. The team flag, in my opinion, is useless. Most people seem to speed level, but I've had a lot of success with advertising "Running Doc Delilah arc lvl 20" or "Steel Canyon missions lvl 12" on the Looking channel. Lots of the time, people will switch toons to fit the advertisement. It works a lot better than passively setting a flag and waiting for the invites to roll in. I just don't think there is the population to support that.

Did he have a stroke from a Nemesis clot? Then was he laid out on a Nemesis cot?

There is, of course, the old display bug to consider. But that aside: If you are trying to sell something, and it posts a trade higher than where you were offering, that simply means at the time someone bid that, someone else was offering it cheaper than where you were. Probably working as intended. You can either wait and hope, or you can bite the bullet and repost. If you are trying to buy something, and it posts a trade lower than where you were bidding, something is wrong. I have seen this happen a number of times, which may have been the display bug, but it leads me to believe that sometimes the bidding system doesn't work as intended.

Or of sorcerers.

Thanks for doing this. Some of my stable started to hit 50 over the past few weeks. What really would have been helpful for me would have been a specific description of each of the abilities available and some opinions on what kind of character they would work for. You did a bit of this, and admittedly lots of it are for aesthetics (like judgement), but it would have helped me a lot on my alphas. True, all that info is on Paragonwiki, but you DID say it was comprehensive! Maybe in a future update or a different guide. Thanks again!

I’ve got two staff brutes (/fire at 50 and /Regen at 40). I haven’t taken them for a spin (see what I did there?) recently, but I’ve found that hasten doesn’t really feel like it helps that much on a staffer attack chain. Am I misremembering, or is the hasten mainly for the secondary/pool powers?

Sure, I’ll validate you! Some people like to play chess against grandmasters, and some want to play checkers against toddlers. Sometimes both in the same day! I lean towards seeking challenges myself. At a certain point, there are no more real “rewards” from playing other than the enjoyment of the game itself.

I too would love to see a pro build for this. I’ve built mine organically, so probably am not using bio armor to anywhere near its greatest potential. That said, in mid-30s, I’m mostly soloing TFs, and the offensive output is impressive. I’ve never had an easier time with soloing AVs. Admittedly, they aren’t particularly difficult ones, but I’ve been impressed with the build so far.

If inf is no object, and there's no reason should ever lack it, I'd go with IOs starting at level 12. They aren't great, but they are better than nothing and they don't expire like TOs and DOs. I generally craft/buy generic IOs starting at level 12 and then work in attuned IO sets when I hit certain level milestones like 17. TOs and DOs are vendor fodder. I suggest selling them and using the proceeds towards your IOs.